Colossians 4:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν σοφίᾳ περιπατεῖτε πρὸς τοὺς ἔξω, τὸν καιρὸν ἐξαγοραζόμενοι.

Transliteration

In sophia peripateite pros those exō, the kairon exagorazomenoi.

Grammar Details

*sophia*: dative, feminine, singular - wisdom
*peripateite*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - walk/conduct yourselves
*pros*: preposition + accusative - toward
*exō*: adverb - outside/without
*kairon*: accusative, masculine, singular - time/opportunity/season
*exagorazomenoi*: present participle, middle, nominative, masculine, plural - redeeming/making the most of

Word Meanings

*sophia*: wisdom/skill/intelligence
*peripateite*: walk/conduct yourselves/live
*exō*: outside/without/non-believers
*kairon*: opportune time/season/occasion
*exagorazomenoi*: redeeming/buying up/making the most of/seizing

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Referenced Verses

Eph 5:15-17 : 15 Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
1 Thess 4:12 : 12 that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.
1 Tim 3:7 : 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Jas 3:13 : 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
Matt 10:16 : 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Rom 16:19 : 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: {G1909} but I would have you {G1511} wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.
1 Cor 5:12-13 : 12 For what have I to do with judging them {G2532} that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. {G2532} Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
1 Cor 14:19-25 : 19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. 20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. 21 In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe. 23 If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad? 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all; 25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
Mark 4:11 : 11 And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:
Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first {G3303} pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, {G2532} without hypocrisy.
1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

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17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the {G3062} Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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3For the time past {G979} may suffice {G2254} to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
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5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
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6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
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10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
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